Student, parent, and teacher attitudes toward video surveillance monitoring

Acts of violence and student misbehavior in our nation’s schools are widely documented. In response, some schools employ video surveillance cameras (VSCs) in their hallways. Student, parent, and teacher perceptions of video surveillance monitoring are essentially unknown. This study examines the effect, if any, of the presence of video surveillance cameras in schools. It specifically considers their effect on the attitudes of students, parents, and teachers toward student behavior, school safety, and feelings of privacy. The scope of this study was limited to the students, parents, and teachers of one middle school and the students of another middle school. The first school utilized video surveillance monitoring in school hallways, the second did not. The population included the 2690 middle school students of School A and School B. The population also included the 89 teachers and over 1350 parents of School A. Thirty percent of the students in each of the two schools were chosen through a random selection of homeroom classes and given consent forms to return signed by their parent. The researcher expected a return rate of 15 percent. Homeroom teachers administered a short questionnaire during the regularly scheduled advisory period. Questionnaires were sent to School A parents who indicated a willingness to participate in this study. All School A teachers, excluding those absent, consented to participation and completed the questionnaire during a scheduled faculty meeting. No anticipated risks or benefits to participants existed in this study. Students and teachers remained anonymous. Parental participation was confidential and identifiable only by a predetermined code. Data analysis consisted of determining the frequencies of each response and percentages of respondents in each category of the five point response categories. Cross tabulations and a chi-square test were conducted on the data. This study permits school officials to examine student, parent, and teacher attitudes toward video surveillance monitoring in middle school hallways. Favorable attitudes may indicate that video cameras effectively curtail student misbehavior and increase safety.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Administration

Department dc:contributor.department

Educational Administration

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Spivey, Charles L.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Earthman, Glen I.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Benson, J.A.
• Richards, Robert R.
• Salmon, Richard
• Tonelson, L.O.
• Vaught, Claire C.

• video
• surveillance
• school

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-10022007-144809

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39497